Over Colleagues Being 'Lathi-Charged' In Hapur?
From Monday, 04 September 2023, Lawyers in Uttar Pradesh are on a three-day strike to protest the alleged police lathi-charge on advocates in Hapur district last week.
On Sunday, the decision to go on strike was taken at a meeting of the UP-Bar Council.
"On the call of the Bar Council, we are here. We will be meeting the district magistrate and hand him over a memorandum of our demands," General Secretary of Lucknow Bar Association, Kuldeep Narain Mishra told news agency PTI.
The Council has demanded the transfer of the Hapur District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police, lodging of FIR against policemen, withdrawal of fake cases against lawyers, and compensation to lawyers injured in the Hapur lathi charge.
On 29 August 29, Police allegedly lathi-charged lawyers when they were protesting against the registration of a case against a woman advocate.
The case was registered following a confrontation between the woman's lawyer and police when she was going to Ghaziabad in her car.
On August 30, police registered an FIR against 17 lawyers and over 250 unknown people at the City police station in Hapur over a protest by some advocates at the tehsil crossing last week.
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